Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Every dirty passion, and bad propensity in my nature, took the alarm, as I stated the proposition."Work: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23048
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23048"From shadows thinner than the fleeting night / That floats along the vale, or haply seems / To wrap the mountain in its hazy vest, / (Which the first sun-beam dissipates in air.) / How dost thou conjure monsters which ne'er mov'd / But in the chaos of thy frenzied brain!"Work: Theron: A Tale [from Miscellanies]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/15036
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/15036"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...Work: Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama In Four Actshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19297
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19297"His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the <i>Arena</i>, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives then b...Work: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/15364
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/15364"No, Bianca; his heart was ever a stranger to me--but he is my father, and I must not complain."Work: The Castle of Otrantohttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14019
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14019"I have often suspected Isabella's indifference to my son: a thousand circumstances crowd on my mind that confirm that suspicion."Work: The Castle of Otrantohttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/13975
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/13975"J'abandonne mon esprit à tout son libertinage. Je le laisse maître de suivre la première idée sage ou folle qui se présente, comme on voit dans l'allée de Foy nos jeunes dissolus marcher sur les pas d'une courtisane à l'air éventé, au visage riant, à l'oeil vif, au nez retroussé, quitter celle-c...Work: Le Neveu de Rameau [Rameau's Nephew]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24965
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24965"C’est lui qui porte le flambeau au fond de la caverne; c’est lui qui apprend à discerner les motifs subtils et déshonnêtes qui se cachent et se dérobent sous d’autres motifs qui sont honnêtes et qui se hâtent de se montrer les premiers. Il souffle sur le fantôme sublime qui se présente à l’entré...Work: Éloge de Richardson [from Journal etranger]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22573
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22573"This family! this landlord, let me say, or this landlady, as the mind and the soul are both she. I shall confuse myself with metaphor. Let me then have done with it."Work: Boswell's Journal [1766-1769]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24873
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24873"Only this more. The ideas--my lodgers--are of all sorts. Some, gentlemen of the law, who pay me a great deal more than others. Divines of all sorts have been with me, and have ever disturbed me. When I first took up house, Presbyterian ministers used to make me melancholy with dreary tones. Meth...Work: Boswell's Journal [1766-1769]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24874
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